Equity wants action on female stereotypes on stage. But change would be swifter if theatre-makers challenged their own thinkingWomen are at the heart of Ché Walker and Arthur Darvill's The Lightning Child, a version of Euripides' The Bacchae at Shakespeare's Globe. But one of the odd things about this performance is how conventionally the women are portrayed. For all its apparent attempt to examine gender issues, in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:29AM on September 23, 2013